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Passing Shots: The Fed vest

Random thoughts, observations, links and other goodies from the tennis world this week …

• Roger Federer wore a sweater vest during his quarterfinal match against Florian Mayer at the German Tennis Championships on Friday. People noticed. Federer removed it, though, after losing the second set. He played the third set without it and won the match. As we learned from The Godfather, "Leave the sweater vest, take the racket."

• Fabio Fognini has knocked out Tommy Haas in the quarterfinals of a German tournament by the same scoreline two weeks in a row. Fognini followed up last week's 6-2, 6-4 victory in Stuttgart with another one in Hamburg on Friday. That's a weird level of consistency for anyone, but especially for Fognini.

• Speaking of Hamburg, I couldn't agree more with this:

https://twitter.com/jon_wertheim/status/357948470847471620

• Bastad knows how to treat a girl right:The Swedish Open plays Serena Williams' favorite band, Green Day, on her changeovers, she presumably received a hefty appearance fee and her matches have been packed.

Martina Hingis was inducted into the Hall of Fame last week. (Elise Amendola/AP)

• I wasn't surprised by Martina Hingis' decision to enter the doubles draw of the WTA Premier event in Carlsbad, Calif, later this month. The tournament is owned and operated by Octagon, which represents Hingis and her partner for the week, Daniela Hantuchova. Also, Hingis' tennis clothing line, Tonic, is the official outfitter for the tournament. It wasn't a comeback, but a marketing opportunity. But now the new Hall of Famer plans to play doubles at the New Haven Open, too. Consider me intrigued. Could a U.S. Open doubles wild card be far off?

• On the Getty Images photo wire, pictures of Victoria Azarenka and Redfoo from the ESPY Awards were originally captioned "Stefan 'RedFoo' Gordy and guest." They knew all of his names but they couldn't pick Azarenka out of a lineup? She was nominated for Best Female Tennis Player!